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How Trumps last-minute contract decision sent brains to the grave
Brain banks stopped taking donations as their contract expiration date approached.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories RFK Jr., DOGE gutted legally required offices. Courts may undo it all.
Federal workers, Democratic lawmakers, state officials and independent legal experts say keeping offices afloat in name only – with minimal or no staff – is an unconstitutional power grab.
12:00 PM Politico Top Stories We dont have to choose: Gallego launches border and immigration platform
The Arizona Democrat is detailing his plans as his party tries to stake out a new stance on the issue.
04:30 AM Politico Top Stories 'It's time for Joe Biden to go away': Democrats are triggered by Biden's return to the spotlight
Democrats are ready to move on even if their former standard bearer is not.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories Sean Duffy: Too many planes flying in and out of Newark now
"I'm concerned about the whole airspace," the Transportation secretary told NBC.
11:38 AM Politico Top Stories The Trump administrations conflicting messages to the public and the courts
Government lawyers paint a very different picture in court filings from the one Trump and his allies do on TV and social media.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories Republicans Love Steakhouses. Democrats Love Bistros. They All Love Spending Big at These DC Eateries.Trump to pitch sweeping Medicare drug price plan
Trump wanted to advance the ‘most favored nation’ policy in his first term but faced resistance from industry and the courts.
04:15 PM Politico Top Stories Judge lets CIA fire doctor who pushed mandatory Covid vaccines for military
The doctor had argued her looming termination was the result of public attacks by some of Trump’s most vocal social media defenders.
02:37 PM Politico Top Stories Measles hits 1,000 cases for the second time in 30 years
The new figure comes as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly delivered mixed messages about the outbreak.
12:44 PM Politico Top Stories How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
It might take a mock battlefield to solve America’s political divisions.
04:00 PM Politico Top Stories The Political Education of Karoline Leavitt
Before she was Trump’s press secretary, she was a 23-year-old MAGA diehard staging a longshot congressional campaign.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories To name is to claim: Inside Trumps cartographical compulsionTrump Is Already Obsessed With the Midterms
Eighteen months out, the president is already hyper-engaged in the fight to keep the GOP’s majorities in Congress.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories DNC chair doubles down on his ultimatum for Hogg
Chair Ken Martin is emphasizing his neutrality in primaries, while the 25-year-old vice chair looks to disrupt the party from within.
02:35 PM Politico Top Stories Republicans partial tax plan estimated to cost $5 trillion
House Republicans released a partial text for the GOP tax bill on Friday and are expected to release the full text on Monday.
09:27 PM Politico Top Stories Trump fires top US copyright officialDemocratic senator says GOP is trying to woo FettermanIndia and Pakistan agree to ceasefire
The two nuclear-armed countries agreed to start talks on a “broad set of issues at a neutral site,” U.S. says.
11:47 AM Politico Top Stories The First Thing George Santos Should Do in Prison
What the disgraced former lawmaker should know as he heads to prison, according to another ex-con ex-congressman.
09:55 AM Politico Top Stories Judges warn Trump's mass deportations could lay groundwork to ensnare Americans
Judges across the country continue to note that if courts don’t protect the rights of the least popular and most vulnerable, everyone is at risk.
07:00 AM Politico Top Stories The US-China trade meetings low bar: Progress
Close China watchers say they don’t expect Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng to make any immediate concessions when the two sides meet in Switzerland this weekend.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from laying off federal employees
The ruling puts on hold the White House’s plans to implement government-wide layoffs at a number of agencies.
10:25 PM Politico Top Stories Feds believe Eric Adams lied about his personal cellphone during Manhattan street raid
The DOJ released a trove of documents on the same day the mayor sat down with Trump.
11:27 PM Politico Top Stories ICE releases New Jersey mayor arrested at protest with lawmakersTrump has sat for only 12 daily intelligence briefings since taking office
The scarcity of the President’s Daily Briefings comes as he pursues high-stakes diplomacy with America’s friends and foes.
06:00 PM Politico Top Stories Im Being Kicked Out: A Trans Military Commander Confronts Trumps Ban
A Supreme Court ruling allows the military to ban transgender people from serving. Now, those service members are living with uncertainty.
05:15 PM Politico Top Stories Poll shows big problem for Trumps trade deal: Its Trump
With dozens of deals to be brokered, the U.S.-U.K. trade deal should be one of the easiest — and a POLITICO-Public First poll found that American and British adults have serious doubts about Trump’s commitment to it.
05:50 AM Politico Top Stories 55 Things You Need to Know About the New Pope, Leo XIV
The first American to preside over the church spent much of his career as a missionary abroad.
02:16 PM Politico Top Stories Internal polling shows Fetterman's support is tanking with Democrats in his backyard
The survey indicates a potential "freak-out moment" for the Pennsylvania senator who has made Pittsburgh — his home region — core to his brand.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories The Woman Leading the Surging MAGA Antitrust Movement
Gail Slater, the head of the DOJ’s antitrust division, will show how serious the right is about bringing big tech companies to heel.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories The nations cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
05:00 AM Politico Top Stories 'How come I cant breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
10:32 AM Politico Top Stories Whats Driving Trumps Attack on Museums
An ousted museum director from Poland explains why museums are on the “front lines” when populists take power.
12:00 PM Politico Top Stories Californias frustration with homelessness is boiling over, poll finds
A survey from POLITICO and the UC Berkeley Citrin Center asked registered voters if they supported an aggressive approach to clearing encampments.
09:00 AM Politico Top Stories The Administration That Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters Is Trying to Jail a Guy Over a Protest BannerTrumps Most Important Relationship Is Ending. And the Break-Up Isnt Pretty.
For a half-century Trump and the mainstream media have mutually benefited from a stormy symbiosis. Why is he trying to kill the institution that made him?
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories Trumps Controversial US Attorney Is Coming for Medical Marijuana
The Trump-allied prosecutor has threatened Wikipedia, medical journals and Congressional Democrats. Now he’s putting a medical-marijuana dispensary on notice, too.
10:00 AM Politico Top Stories How Donald Trump Revealed Jeff Bezos True Self
Not long ago, Washington dreamed that Jeff Bezos would become the king of the Beltway. Then the rules changed.
05:55 AM Politico Top Stories The 7 Most Shameless Attention-Seekers in Congress |